This is gallery of photographs by and all featuring Natsumi Hayashi, a Tokyo teenager who takes hundreds of pictures of herself jumping until she captures just the right one where, instead of jumping, it looks like she's levitating. That, or she just takes one and Photoshops the hoverboard out.

"The only way to get a right timing for a shot is jumping a lot," Hayashi said in an interview with the U.K.'s Daily Mail, dispelling our hopeful illusions that she's the first human being who can actually fly. "Sometimes I need to jump over 100 times to get a right shot" She does this in front of her camera, mounted on a tripod, and continues to do so until she achieves that perfect, natural-looking "levitation."

"I got the idea from an English idiom that says 'to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground," she continued. "In Japan, we have the exact same idiom. But I am not a practical person at all. Therefore, I try 'not to have my feet firmly on the ground' in my self-portrait photos to show my true self."

Oh reaaaaaaaaally, Natsumi? Is your 'real self' actually an impractical girl or -- OR -- is it a levitating witch? Ha -- no need to answer, we're gonna drown you either way just to be safe.

Kinda funny..If she's just jumping, doesn't her poses in the pic look like it will come to a bad ending? as in it looks like shes gonna eat shit after each jump.

Rohan Ford

A french photographer named Dennis Darcaq created a photo series called 'hyper casques' in 2010, these are really great shots, but i believe hes the originator of this particular concept and one much more thoroughly grounded in his own set of theories

The Chadwick

Ugh, teenagers, I despise all this "free spirit" shit. I don't think any of us have our feet firmly planted on the ground all the time. The comment is a little redundant.